[arch-releng] RC2 ISOs and final release

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:20:18AM +0100, Alexander De Sousa wrote:
> Ok, here are my reports:
> 
> Tests: As for other images + manual network configuration.
> Machines: As for other images (VirtualBox machines, VMware machines, real
> machines).
> 
> Images tested (SHA-1 sums verified):
> 
> archlinux-2009.02-RC2-core-i686.iso 16A77C07C252A21379D057DEB5D6F4D75039B946
> archlinux-2009.02-RC2-core-x86_64.iso
> C730DC90FEF25EAA6BDD0A5431BCBB5935B3B613
> archlinux-2009.02-RC2-ftp-i686.iso 6ABA5F14B6BAC9E8DD7962EE4544D8F5FBFCA7C5
> archlinux-2009.02-RC2-ftp-i686-isolinux.iso
> 763971A32554ADA562906707BC70E3C5DD45814F
> archlinux-2009.02-RC2-ftp-x86_64.iso
> 3C7D8697AC1CAB71FC23B0060B726EB6CFF67050
> archlinux-2009.02-RC2-ftp-x84_64-isolinux.iso
> 2135A6AEAEE9C359A9D523660BDA767CADACA152
> 
> Bugs:
> 
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12896 : Couldn't test, it's for USB images.
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12949 : Corrected, it was also corrected in
> RC1 by the way. (disc capacity)
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13038 : Corrected. (vc/n typo)
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13057 : "Corrected" as grub-gfx is up to date
> with patches. (grub-install from outside the installed system)
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13068 : Corrected "long" ago. (updated
> grub-gfx for x86_64)
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13070 : Corrected, it was also corrected in
> RC1 by the way. (grub-gfx installed instead of grub)
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13101 : Corrected. (timezone not written in
> rc.conf)
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13102 : Corrected, /etc/localtime does exist
> and no "last mount time is in the future message". ()
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13140 : "Corrected" I guess, it looks good to
> me; though I've never used it. (documentation)
> 
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13237 : This one is new:
> 
> If you choose to configure network manually (by entering IP, net mask,
> broadcast IP, ...) and then you choose to use that settings in the installed
> system, the setup script may not update correctly the broadcast IP and even
> give an invalid one. This happens when use any IP with at least one of the
> bytes different from the default one (e.g. 192.168.8.2, which would give an
> incorrect broadcast IP) or with more than 8 digits (e.g. 192.168.0.27, would
> give an invalid broadcast IP). I attach a patch to the setup script to solve
> it.

See also http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13192

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Greg

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